Software Engineer, Security

San Francisco, CA

At Qualia, we are fundamentally transforming the way real estate professionals, lenders, and homebuyers manage real estate transactions, one of the nation’s largest industries. We are bringing together everyone involved in the closing process onto one shared, secure platform -- basically, we’re making buying a home in America easier, safer, cheaper, and less painful by moving the process online! Qualia was founded in 2015 by Forbes 30 Under 30 Award recipients Nate Baker, Joel Gottsegen and Lucas Hansen. The company is backed by top investors including 8VC, Bienville Capital, Menlo Ventures and Tiger Global and currently processes 15% of all US real estate transactions. Qualia is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and has offices in Austin, TX.

Our security team is responsible for ensuring the security of both our technology and our organization as a whole. The team is responsible for application threat modeling, active penetration testing, design and oversight of secure development practices, development of tooling for exploit prevention and intrusion detection, and educating the organization on security best practices. More concisely, the security team is responsible for making sure the “bad guys” don’t win.

As a security engineer you will work as a core member of the security team, with all of the responsibilities that entails. This role is an entry point into the security world, and while it doesn’t require that you’ve previously worked in an official security position, it does require a deep passion for security that you’ve curated on your own time and a broad understanding of technology ranging from front-end all the way down to assembly. You will need to learn quickly and deeply.

Your day to day

Perform active penetration testing and threat modeling

Educate the engineering team on security best practices

Build tools for automatic exploit detection and intrusion detection

Improve the security of our core existing and future architecture

The background that likely makes you a match

BS/MS in Computer Science or in a relevant field of study

5+ years of professional software engineering experience

Hands-on working experience with

Back-end web development

DevOps (e.g. AWS, Docker, monitoring tools, networking, etc.)

Practical cryptography

Advanced networking

Proficiency in a variety of programming languages

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong people and collaboration skills

Experience with large scale enterprise SaaS infrastructure and fintech is a strong plus

Why Qualia

Our flat company structure empowers engineers to make product decisions

We have a collaborative culture where engineers mentor each other

Our team members take time to eat together and share conversation at our daily catered lunches

We have a fantastic location in a sunny office in downtown San Francisco, easily commutable from anywhere in the Bay Area by BART and MUNI

We offer generous compensation and benefits packages including medical, vision, and dental insurance and a flexible PTO policy

About our engineering team

Qualia hosts the official Meteor Developer’s Night in our San Francisco HQ, which is the largest gathering of Meteor developers in the world. The event features talks on Meteor and Javascript development generally, often including talks from Qualia team members.

Qualia’s Head of Design, Jack Lukic, is the creator of Semantic UI, one of the most popular open-source design frameworks. Qualia engineers learn this framework, and design patterns more generally, directly from the creator of the framework our front end is built on! Very few companies can say that.

As part of our focus on continual learning and development, a Qualia team member gives an educational talk on something they’re interested in every Thursday to the entire engineering and product team. Topics range from Kolmogorov complexity theory to the definition of art, to models of existential risk.